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By Rachel Deahl

■ A Crowe Flies to Da Capo New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s “insights into the changing telecom-
In a North American rights agreement, crackdown on drugs and nightlife. The munications industry” in the book. The
musician Steve Gorman sold his biogra- push led, the publisher said, to “a night- History Factory brokered the world rights
phy Hard to Handle to Ben Schafer at Da marish, decadelong legal assault on his agreement with Ziccardi.
Capo. Gorman, who is livelihood and freedom.” Paul Bresnick
a founding member at Bresnick Weil Literary Agency and ■ Briefs
of the band the Black Meg Thompson at Thompson Literary Rodale Books’ Allison Janice took world
Crowes, is writing the Agency represented Gatien. rights to Linda Anderson, Sonia Banks,
book with Steven and Michelle Owens-Patterson’s Silent
Hyden. Anthony ■ Constantine’s Latest to HC Agreements: How Unspoken Expectations
Gorman Mattero at Foundry Liv Constantine, the pseudonym for the Ruin Our Relationships. The authors, all
Literary + Media brokered the agree- writing duo of sisters Lynne and Valerie
ment. The book is set for spring 2019. Constantine, closed a world rights agree-
ment for a currently untitled novel with
■ Wax Does Double at Emily Griffin at HarperCollins. The
Berkley book is the sisters’ sophomore effort,
Kate Seaver at Berkley bought North following The Last Mrs. Parrish, which was
American rights to two currently unti- a bestseller published by HC last year (and
tled new novels by Wendy Wax (the Ten which was a Reese Witherspoon Book
Beach Road series). Stephanie Kip Michelle Owens-Patterson (l.),
© beth kelly Rostan at Levine, © erica livingston Linda Close (c.), and Sonia Banks
Greenberg, Rostan
represented Wax.
clinical psychologists, were represented
Berkley said the first by Regina Brooks at Serendipity Liter-
book in the deal, ary Agency. Brooks said that her clients
which is slated for call themselves “relationship archaeolo-
Wax June 2019, follows gists” and that their book “explores the
“two estranged best friends who are turn- unexpressed assumptions that influence
ing 40 and the wedding that could mend Valerie (l.) and Lynn Constantine and very often damage our relation-
their friendship or end it forever.” Club pick). The publisher said this book ships.” The book is slated for fall 2019.
follows two estranged friends who come Grace Menary-Windfield at Source-
■ Club King Parties with together to solve the brutal murder of one books bought world English rights to
Amazon of their mothers. Bernadette Baker- Erica Boyce’s debut, The Fifteen Wonders
For Amazon’s Little A imprint, Laura Baughman at Victoria Sanders & Associ- of Daniel Green. Eric Smith at PS Literary,
Van der Veer took world rights to ates represented the sisters in the deal. who represented Boyce, said the literary
Peter Gatien’s memoir, Eye Wide Open: novel is about a man
My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York ■ Verizon Chief Sells His Story who, while traveling
Life. A nightclub Anthony Ziccardi at Post Hill Press across the country,
owner who oversaw acquired Ivan Seidenberg’s Verizon Un- makes “crop circles for
some of the top-gross- tethered: An Insider’s Story of Innovation and farmers as part of a
ing after-hours spots Disruption. Seiden- society of ‘Circlers.’ ”
in the world during berg, who is writing Boyce The hero then “finds
the 1970s, ’80s, and the book with Scott himself falling for the daughter of a dying
Gatien ’90s, Gatien, the McMurray, is the farmer, gets drawn into the tangle of her
publisher said, was considered the “king former CEO of Veri- family’s secrets, and has to come to terms
of clubs” during his heyday. Gatien’s zon and, the publisher with the life he’s been running from.” The
career demise was spurred by former Seidenberg said, will share his novel is set for a spring 2019 release.

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